Dara Shukuh Captive Visionary of His Times

This book deals with the times, life and works of Dara Shukuh as a Sufi scholar and a military man subsumed under Akhlalq working for social cohesion within Akbar''s dominant state ideology. His effort at raptures produced biographies, translations of the Upani shads, quatrains, calligraphy, architecture, astronomy and painting album. The book dcalswithhislovcs, travails, turbulence and heinous martyrdom owing to his vision and constrains of the times he lived in. This crystal tower was brought to dust owing to treachery, limitcdvisionofhis orthodox and ambitious co-brothers. He became a path blaxr within the paradigm of the seventeenth century anticipating Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ravindra Nath Tagorc, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawahar Lai Nehru, by challenging orthodoxy. The book contcxtuaUses him in the times as part of the opposition between orthodoxy and heterodoxy around the grid of equality of religions and not priority of a religion.